Tag: Boko Haram

An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in north eastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, ...

Twelve soldiers in southeastern Niger were killed and eight wounded in an overnight attack by gunmen likely belonging to Islamist ...

Worsening violence has doubled the number of people displaced from northwest Nigeria to some 40 000 over the past four ...

Nigeria will require anyone moving through three north-eastern states to carry identification cards in an effort to root out members ...

The army in northeastern Nigeria forced non-profit Action Against Hunger to close its office in the region, accusing it on ...

Islamist insurgents have kidnapped at least one person working for an international aid organisation, Action Against Hunger, in north-eastern Nigeria, ...

Nigerian troops have thwarted a Boko Haram attack on a military formation in the volatile northeast, killing dozens of jihadists, ...

Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, where football fans were watching a match on TV.

Boko Haram jihadists have raided a military base in north-eastern Nigeria near the border with Niger, killing several troops and ...

An attack by Boko Haram jihadists in northern Cameroon last weekend left 37 dead, a security official in the region ...

Security forces in Niger have foiled three weekend attacks in the capital Niamey and in the south-eastern city of Diffa, ...

Boko Haram jihadists have carried out multiple attacks on military bases in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, overrunning three of them ...

Security forces in southeast Niger shot dead four suicide bombers from the Boko Haram jihadist group as they prepared to ...

203 crime-related deaths and 281 kidnappings in the first three months of 2019, according to Nigeria's top police officer.

Nearly 900 children held by a pro-government militia force fighting Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria were freed, the UN ...

Boko Haram jihadists have seized a military base in northeast Nigeria, days after an attack left five troops dead and ...

Residents of a northeastern Nigerian village torched by Boko Haram fighters said Wednesday that nine more bodies of their relatives ...

Boko Haram jihadists have killed 14 loggers as they collected firewood in northeast Nigeria, residents and anti-Boko Haram militia have ...

Aisha Musa Maina digs through an old bag looking for memories of her daughter Hauwa, one of the Chibok schoolgirls ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari summoned his top security chiefs to a closed-doors meeting on Thursday, facing rising pressure to address ...